Left Accuses GOP: "Getting Rid of Wellstone is Passion for Rove, Cheney, George W. Bush"

Citizens for Legitimate Government ^ | 10/26/02 | Self

[bootless]

This is what I received in my email. My comments follow. Bold is theirs.

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
October 26, 2002
http://www.legitgov.org/

-- BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
[Senator Paul Wellstone, 58, died in plane crash. We have lost one of our best, brightest and most consistently progressive Senators. And now Senate control is in serious jeopardy. We mourn the terrible loss of a true Patriot and hero.]

Paul Wellstone, Fighter -- by John Nichols (The Nation, May 9, 2002)
"Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration. 'There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone,' a senior Republican aide confides. 'This one is political and personal for them.' "

Bush Fears Tenacious, Popular Wellstone -- by John Nichols (Madison Capital Times, April 24, 2001)
"Let there be no doubt as to the identity of George W. Bush’s least favorite Democratic U.S. senator. It’s Wellstone, the rabble-rousing Progressive who represents not just Minnesota but what remains of the fighting populist spirit of the Upper Midwest... The Bushies despise Wellstone, who unlike most Senate Democrats has been fighting spirited battles against the new administration’s policies on everything from the environment to the tax cuts for the rich to military aid for the 'Plan Colombia' drug war boondoggle. Other Democratic senators who face re-election contests in 2002 are, according to polls, more vulnerable than Wellstone. But the Bush camp has been focusing highest-level attention on "Plan Wellstone" — its project to silence progressive opposition."

Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti-Wellstone campaign Americans for Job Security, a Virginia-based interest group that opposes the reelection of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, has made an unprecedented $1 million ad buy that will fill the airwaves in the last two weeks before the election, according to Wellstone campaign officials.

Wellstone Sets Pace, Declares Support for Action on Corporate Reform (Oct. 24, 2002) Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota today became the first Member of Congress to support a pledge to work for top to bottom reform of corporations and to provide new tools for federal regulators to protect taxpayers, consumers and investors. The 12-point pledge is being circulated to all 535 members of the Senate and the House of Representatives by Ralph Nader in an effort to build momentum for major reforms in the wake of the corporate fraud exposed at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphi, Arthur Andersen and many other businesses.

Minnesota Senator Is Among 8 Dead in Crash Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed Friday when his campaign plane crashed in a wooded region in the northern part of his state, officials said Friday. Mr. Wellstone, 58, a Democrat who was one of the Senate's most liberal members and was in a fierce fight to win re-election to a third term, perished along with seven other people when the aircraft went down near Eveleth. Mr. Wellstone had opposed the resolution giving pResident Bush the authority to invade Iraq. [This is a terrible loss and one of the most inauspicious coincidences imaginable!]

Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone dead in plane crash in Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat from Minnesota, was killed in a small plane crash Friday about seven miles east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, authorities said. Eight people were reported aboard the plane -- a twin-engine turboprop King Air manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft.

Raytheon wants to help in investigation of senator's plane crash [Holy Cover-Up, Batman!! I am *SURE* they do!] Wichita-based Raytheon Aircraft Co. said it is willing and able to send an investigative team to examine the cause of the plane crash that killed U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone along with his wife, daughter and five others in northern Minnesota Friday.

Team to search for crash causes -- Investigation: The FBI will determine whether Friday's crash was caused by bad weather, mechanical problems or human error. The Beech King Air that Sen. Paul Wellstone boarded in St. Paul Friday morning had a solid track record as one of the most popular workhorses in the sky. But something went wrong Friday... {FREEPER NOTE: Icing will do that to you in Northern Minnesota.)

Did the right-wing or CIA or someone close to Bush tamper with Sen. Wellstone’s plane?
By Jackson Thoreau "My first hunch about Sen. Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, possibly the CIA. Raytheon Co., one of the biggest U.S. military contractors and manufacturer of the plane that crashed, is a huge donor to Republicans - U.S. House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, for instance, received $48,201 alone from Raytheon in 1997-98. The Republican National Committee received at least $170,000 from Raytheon since 1999." {FREEPER Note: ... Oh, never mind. What can I add to what you're already thinking?}

Raytheon -- Strategic Business Areas The company's four strategic business areas are aligned to provide customers with solutions that draw upon the capabilities of the entire company. These strategic business areas are: Missile Defense; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Precision Strike; and Homeland Security. Raytheon Backgrounders: Raytheon - Experienced Partner in Homeland Security; Raytheon - Airport Security; First Responder Command and Communication Vehicle

Similarities of Wellstone, Carnahan deaths send shudder through body politic. It was all too similar: A fatal plane crash days before an election in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race [killing key Democrats]. The accident that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, members of his family and three of his staff on Friday chilled political figures from Missouri, coming as it did almost exactly two years after the death of Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan. [The most virulent strains of anthrax were sent to whom? That would be *Democrats.* Coincidence run amok...] {FREEPER NOTE: Leftist paranoia run amok. Both GOP opposition candidates suspended their campaigns following each crash. And Carnahan WON!}

Wellstone Death Throws Senate Race Into Chaos The sudden death of incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone threw a tight Minnesota race that could decide control of the Senate into chaos on Friday, little more than a week before the election.

Statement by President Al Gore on Senator Paul Wellstone 1944-2002

Lori R. Price
http://legitgov.org
Petition to Senate - Investigate Oddities of 9/11: http://www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html

[tickles]

I believe the last time MN sent a Republican to the Senate it was Rudy Boschwitz>>>>>>>>

Actually, Durenburger was in there somewhere, i think longer then boschwitz, but he was held accountable for his ethics charges that the senate committe cleared him on.

then what's his name who lost to Dayton two years ago, he lost I would say mostly because of his recent divorce and the fact that his son was an addict and eventually went of to NM with an underage girl and some other man, they used his sons problems against him.

at least that's how I recall it, we had two senetors in there from 1990 who canceled each other out probably 99% of the time. The past two years we've had two who vote in lock step. yuck.

[Theodore R.]

This helps to explain why the MN population count has been static for 30 years.

[section9]

Remember what these leftists say here.

They are quite willing to believe this of us; care not they that they give the appearance of those who have taken flight from reason.

I have read wiser discourses from the brownshirts on the White People's Party websites.

These leftists are scum. They disgust me. They are no more friendly to this country than is the common jihadist.

At least the jihadist's hate of our country is pure: we know where he's coming from. The leftist, on the other hand, claims a higher patriotism while indulging in hatred of his own people at the same time.

Leftists hate America because they do not rule America.

Leftists will only love America when they rule America.

It is our job to make sure that they keep hating America.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[LaineyDee]

Leftists will only love America when they rule America

I disagree. They won't be content until they destroy America totally and wipe out any trace of morality connected with Christianity.

[boris]

Remember Senator Inhofe, who was involved in the impeachment of Clinton? He is an expert airman and was flying along when the propeller came off his plane and flew away, leaving him with a heavy glider.

By dint of excellent flying and cool-headedness, he made an emergency landing and walked away.

I saw an interview with an aircraft mechanic who had worked on similar planes for 30 years. "How often does this happen?" he was asked.

"Mister, in 30 years I can recall maybe one other incident."

The prop is held on by multiple bolts, which are "safety wired" to prevent vibration from causing them to unscrew.

Funny, eh? Strange. Unaccountable. Sabotage is--naturally-- out of the question, right?

--Boris

[PRND21]

Ghoulish and disgusting, isn't it?

To be expected. The Dem line is always based in dishonesty. Good thread.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Unlike the spending bills he voted for, the laws of lift and thrust have caps...

RDS
Nature, in order to be tamed, must be obeyed" - Ayn Rand

[ladyinred]

Amazing isn't it? As if we would want this man and his family to die! I think as usual, the left is reflecting their values on us. They are the ones who hate so much that wishing death to Pubbies is something they most likely do often, in fact, I know some of them do.
Did we disagree with Paul Wellstone's politics? Absolutely! Would we, or President Bush wish him dead, or actually murder him? Of course not. We are the side that honors life, unlike the left who care nothing about throwing away life that doesn't fit their agenda.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This post will answer your question as to who has been Senator in recent MN history:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/775886/posts?page=158#158

[F.J. Mitchell]

Not a stitch nor a smidgen of decency can I recall ever seeing among the whole bunch.

[F.J. Mitchell]

And we saw the Torch in New Joisey facing political death, bow out before his commrades began remembering the successful 2000 Missouri tactic.

[montag813]

Everyone is beatifying Paul Welstone ("A great guy", "Everyone's friend") while meanwhile he was the closest thing to a Communist this nation has ever had in the Senate. His views were digraceful and dangerous.

Walter Mondale is an un-American, piece of sh*t who helped Carter try and get the Soviets to manipulate the 1980 and 1984 elections, who fought to castrate America with a nuclear freeze, who is the only Presidential candidate in history to actually say in a speech that we would raise taxes. He must be defeated at all costs.

The Democrats must be DESTROYED. NO REPEAT OF ASHCROST 2000! Coleman must go after Mondale with guns blazing and defeat the son of a bitch.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Not to mention the fact that the Rabid attack hounds of the DNC intensified rather than easing their character assination ads against Ashcroft. Hopefully the candidate in Minnesota as well as the RNC, will remember the lessons of history.